Author: Maura Reilly at RepresentWomen

Brief: Legislative Practices to Ensure Sustained Representation

December 08, 2021

Executive Summary A thriving democracy is within our reach, but we must ensure that women across the racial, ideological, and geographic spectrum of the United States have equal opportunities to enter and remain in...

Peer-Reviewed Article: Election Reform & Women's Representation: Ranked Choice Voting in the U.S.

June 01, 2021

Released: June 2021 In 2021, we published an article in Politics and Governance on the history and impact of single- and multi-winner ranked choice voting on women’s representation in the U.S. In addition to...

Chapter: Women and the Presidency

September 21, 2020

In 2020 "Women and the Presidency" was published as a chapter in the book The Best Candidate: Presidential Nomination in Polarized Times. This chapter looks at the women who have run for the presidency and...

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Brief: Indigenous Women in Politics

July 20, 2020

As research develops around women's political representation it often focuses on national and state levels, sometimes at the expense of other levels of elected representation. One such example of this data gap is women's...

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Report: PACs and Donors: Agents of Change for Women's Representation

January 01, 2020

PACs should set funding targets for cis-women, transgender folk, and nonbinary candidates as well as increase those targets every election cycle until our elected bodies reflect the gender diversity of the population. With public pressure,...

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Report: Achieving Gender Parity - Systems Strategies Around the World

January 01, 2020

In many countries around the world, women are entering political office at higher rates than in the United States. As of January 2022, the U.S. was tied with Egypt and the Philippines in 72nd place for the...

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